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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
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01-09-2005 07:36
From: Lordfly Digeridoo Reverse Shadow's suggestion.
When you're brand new in the world, you get the highest stipend.
As time goes on, your stipend is lowered gradually over time.
Eventually, folks like Shadow and I would get a pittance in stupends, although we would (hopefully) have another income stream coming in (sales, services, dwell) I agree LF, except that I think stipends should be lowered according to other income rather than automatically with account age. Some people might want to stay as consumers forever. There's simply no sane reason why I should be getting a stipend at the end of a week when I've just done 50k in sales. I'd rather see that money go to new people so they can spend it on stuff.
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Blake Rockwell
Fun Businesses
Join date: 31 Oct 2004
Posts: 1,606
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01-09-2005 11:09
Well now, that's generous of you Chip. I feel it's a way that the Lindens give people compensation an appreciation for participating in Secondlife and stimulates commerce.
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Cross Lament
Loose-brained Vixen
Join date: 20 Mar 2004
Posts: 1,115
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01-09-2005 11:43
I have absolutely no problem with everyone getting a reasonable stipend in-game. I mean, come on folks, it's a game. I put up enough with being employed in real life, I sure as hell don't want to come home and have to bust my ass on SL just to have enough play money to play. Increasing stipend with the length of time you've been on the system is a seriously bad idea. Everyone who's not been on as long as you is going to be screaming bloody murder. It might be 'fair', from some point of view, but when it comes down to it, 'fair' loses significance in peoples' minds compared to 'what am I getting?'. I personally like the standard stipend idea, probably something like L$500/wk for basic, L$1500 - 2000 for premium accounts. I find the idea of reducing the stipend due to other income interesting... maybe have that set so that you're always at least getting the base stipend for your account type, ie. a premium player makes L$250 one week from sales, so their stipend for that week would be L$1750, taking them up to their full L$2000 total income for the week. Obviously, if they make more L$ in a week than the total stipend amount, they get paid a stipend of L$0. Quick, say 'stipend' a hundred times, as fast as you can! Isn't it weird how words lose their meaning so quickly, when you do that? 
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